The statute also provided that it was " competent for Her Majesty, Her heirs and successors, at Her or their pleasure, to appoint any Princes of the Blood Royal, being descendants of His late Majesty King George the First, as Extra Knights Grand Commanders ".
22.
The jurist Sir William Blackstone writes that " the plain intention of this law is to guard the Blood Royal from any suspicion of bastardy, whereby the succession to the Crown might be rendered dubious . " Adultery was a serious issue when it came to succession to the crown.
23.
Some Great Officers the Lord Chancellor, the Lord High Treasurer, the Lord President of the Council and the Lord Privy Seal provided they are peers, rank before all other peers except those who are of the Blood Royal ( no precedence is accorded if they are not peers ).
24.
In " A Storm of Swords ", Prince Oberyn Martell remarks that " In the days of the Targaryens, a man who struck one of the blood royal would lose the hand he struck him with " : a punishment evaded in " The Hedge Knight ".
25.
Most of the people listed in " Kelly's Handbook to the Upper Ten Thousand " were among the 30, 000 descendants of Edward III, King of England, tabulated in the Marquis of Ruvigny and Raineval's " Plantagenet Roll of the Blood Royal ".
26.
The wedding took place on 14 January 1935 at the Santa Maria in Trastevere Basilica with Beatriz wearing a 20-foot train, a coronet of orange blossom holding her veil in place, in the presence of King Alfonso, the King and Queen of Italy and some 52 princes of the blood royal.
27.
From her father, Fran�oise Marie received a dowry of more than two million livres, twice the sum bestowed on her older sister, Louise, who had married Louis, Duke of Bourbon, first prince of the blood royal, whose rank was deemed substantially lower than that of the king's nephew.
28.
On screen, Malet has been portrayed by Peter Halliday in the two-part BBC TV play " Conquest " ( 1966 ), part of the series " Theatre 625 ", and by Gawn Grainger in the TV drama " Blood Royal : William the Conqueror " ( 1990 ).
29.
At the time of her death, she was 94 years, 4 months and 16 days old, making her the longest-lived British Princess of the Blood Royal until Princess Alice, Countess of Athlone, a male-line granddaughter of Queen Victoria, broke the record in 1977, aged over 97 years old.
30.
Sakai Tadakiyo, one of Ietsuna's most favored advisors, suggested that the succession not pass to someone of the Tokugawa line, but rather to the blood royal, favoring one of the sons of Emperor Go-Sai to become the next shogun ( as during the Kamakura shogunate ) but Tadakiyo was dismissed soon after.
